Sorry, not ";", but ":".
Jussi On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 8:47 PM, Jussi Lahtinen <jussi.lahti...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK, new version of GambasTester will check the separators. Now accepted > are ";" and "." for time, and "/" and "." for date. > Is there any other valid separators? > > > Jussi > > > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 8:21 PM, Jussi Lahtinen <jussi.lahti...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 8:04 PM, Benoît Minisini < >> gam...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: >> >>> Le 28/08/2015 18:52, Tobias Boege a écrit : >>> > On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Jussi Lahtinen wrote: >>> >> The point was, how do I test whether Format function works in some >>> other >>> >> language than what I'm currently using? >>> >> Month names are not any bigger problem than the separators. How do I >>> know >>> >> which is the correct separator? >>> >> >>> > >>> > (Sorry, I haven't really paid attention to the whole thread here and >>> I'm no >>> > locale expert, so what I say may miss the point.) >>> > >>> > AFAICS you can use the C library's setlocale(3) function to set the >>> locale >>> > of the Gambas process. If that doesn't work (haven't tested in a long >>> time >>> > and remember I had some problems last time I tried that), you can at >>> least >>> > set the LC_ALL environment variable prior to starting the Gambas >>> project. >>> > >>> > As soon as the locale is set, you can use localeconv(3) to get a struct >>> > lconv which, according to locale(7), contains a field `decimal_point' >>> where >>> > you find the decimal separator among lots of other information. >>> > >>> > Regards, >>> > Tobi >>> > >>> >>> There is no concept of date/time separator in glibc locales. >>> >>> Moreover, if you write a date/time following a glibc language locale >>> ABC, you will be often surprised by people speaking the ABC language >>> tellign you that they do not write date/time that way. >>> >>> First example: French. >>> Second recent example: Norwegian. >>> >>> Maybe this is the reason why KDE does not use glibc locales, but its own >>> system. >>> >>> As for Gambas, I don't think you can automate date/format testing. >>> >>> You have to: >>> >>> - Install every language support package possible! >>> >>> - Find one person for each language that will check if the date/time >>> printed by Gambas has a sense for it. >>> >>> So it will be as until now: I will wait for bug reports... >>> >> >> >> Yes exactly. >> I think I will do some general sanity check for the Format function. So >> at least we would catch k's etc as a separator, if enough people would >> install the GambasTester. >> >> >> >> Jussi >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
